I believe that self-control is the root of all other spiritual fruit. Without it, you can't harvest any of the others. Perhaps that is why it's mentioned last in the list of spiritual fruit shown in Galatians 5:22-23.

It’s not that we’re bad people. As Christians, we just have bad tendencies. When we ask Jesus to come into our lives to serve as Lord and savior, then he’s going to take us at our word that we want to become like him.

In the movie Do You Believe (2015), J.D., a character played by Lee Majors, tells his worrisome wife, “Until the good Lord decides it’s time for me to go, there’s nothing going to kill me. When he decides it is time, there’s nothing that’s going to keep me. Not much point to worrying about it either way.”